Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" (NBER working paper 23285)
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Adding industrial robots from 1990 to 2007 cut local US jobs and wages—one more robot per thousand workers lowered employment by 0.18-0.34 points and pay by 0.25-0.5 percent. That damage is distinct from Chinese or Mexican imports, offshoring, and other computers or machines. It reports local-market estimates built on robots competing with people for tasks, using each area’s industry mix and national robot adoption, and checks those areas were not already declining before 1990.
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